December 2008
Joyeux Noël
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 12:48 — Anonymous
A happy holidays to all of you from all of the TWiTs. It's been an amazing year. When we began 2008 there were just two of us at TWiT LLC: Dane and me. Now, with the addition of Frédérique, Colleen, and Tony, there are five, and we hope to add two more staff members in the next few months.
This year saw the creation of TWiT Live, our streaming video channel, and TWiT.am, our streaming audio. We added one show: Roz Rows, lost one, Jumping Monkeys, and created several live shows including TWiT Fit with Al Scardino, PC Perspective with Ryan Shrout, and Maxwell's House with Ray Maxwell.
In 2009 we hope to expand our offerings even more with new shows, an XMPP text stream to complement the audio and video streams, downloadable high-quality video versions of many shows, and more ways to participate in the community of TWiTs.
Our advertising agency, Podtrac, has done a tremendous job of finding us sponsors, and the support of companies like Audible, Citrix, Nerds On Site, Visa, Brain TonIQ, Scott E-Vest, and Drobo has helped us grow. We thank them, as always, for their support.
Thanks, too, to our TWiT hosts, from John C. Dvorak, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Wil Harris, Tom Merritt, Veronia Belmont and the many other distinguished journalists who grace our TWiT panels, to MacBreak Weekly's Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Merlin Mann, and Scott Bourne, to our individual hosts, Paul Thurrott, Steve Gibson, Amber MacArthur, Cammy Blackstone, Roz Savage, Dick DeBartolo, Randal Schwartz, Marc Pelletier, and Denise Howell. We are truly blessed with some of the most interesting minds covering technology.
I especially want to thank all the community volunteers who moderate the chat rooms and forums, contribute music and design support, maintain the servers, and bail me out of the many scrapes I manage to get into. The community that has risen around TWiT is its lifeblood. It's the reason we work so hard to create the programming, and I know it's the reason you continue to watch, listen, chat, and post. Thanks for playing with us. Together we're creating a new kind of media.
Many of you have also contributed financially to TWiT. These contributions have provided the capital we needed to build our live studio, expand our servers, pay the utilities, and all the other recurring costs of a growing operation. We truly couldn't do it without your support. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I know the pundits are predicting tough times ahead, and that some members of our extended TWiT family will be faced with hardships. For that matter, I don't really know what 2009 will bring TWiT, but I have absolute faith in our community. The bonds we have forged together will help us all get through this next year as they have through the past three.
I wish you all a healthy, peaceful, and vital new year. I'm excited about the opportunities 2009 will bring. We'll be here for you, and I know you'll be here for us. Thank you for being a part of TWiT. We couldn't do it without you!
Leo
Review: Max Payne
Thu, 12/18/2008 - 19:16 — AnonymousClearly, I had to go see this movie because my man, Mark Wahlberg is in it (Can’t I still call him Marky Mark?). I was so glad to see he was in an action movie after seeing the disappointment of the year: The Happening.
Plot summary from Netflix:
Mark Wahlberg stars as the title character of this gritty crime thriller, centered on an undercover New York City DEA agent who teams up with a female assassin (Mila Kunis) to avenge the murder of his family. With supporting performances by Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Chris O’Donnell and Donal Logue.
I guess I should start off by saying I do not play video games. I’ve heard this movie is based on a video game but I’ve never heard of the game or seen the game so I’m sure hardcore gamers will have a very different and more passionate review for this movie. But, I’m just gonna pretend it’s not based on a video game because… I can.
I have to say, this was one of the weirdest movies I’ve ever seen in my life. I don’t know why, I just walked out of the theater thinking ‘Holy crap that was weird’. It had a very unique, strange feel to the whole movie.
Saying all that though, I did like the movie. There were some really awesome slow motion action scenes that were so cool to see. I thought it had a very original (albeit strange) plot line and the special effects were pretty cool.
Mila Kunis was kind of a weird casting choice but I didn’t hate her. Marky Mark did an awesome job as usual. And hopefully he is sticking to these types of characters once and for all. Please?
I would say it’s definitely worth the watch. I went with my Dad and he liked it too. It was kind of a man movie I guess.
My Rating:
Liked it
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First image from behind the scenes of ‘Avatar’
Wed, 12/24/2008 - 19:13 — Anonymous
So this is the first proper still we’ve seen from Cameron’s new movie ‘Avatar’. There’s a lot of backlash against cameron for Titanic, but I say fuck the haters, this is a guy who has genuinely pushed Movie technology forward and is continually striving to do interesting things with the medium. Plus he did Terminator 1, 2, AND Aliens. FUCKING ALIENS FOR FUCKS SAKE!. I’m a Cameron Fanboy end of.
I’ve read the script for Avatar (freely available if you search google) and I honestly think if he manages to avoid to much eco-preachiness and pull of his 3D/Live Action/CinExperience thing, then the movie is gonna really push the cinema experience in a new direction… and by that I mean show the way for hollywood and their attitude of “nobody goes to the cinema anymore… what shall we do?.. raise ticket prices? DONE!’. It’s a big ‘IF’ but if anyone can give it a good shot, it’s JC.
I urge you to go read the Avatar script right now.
“In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture.”
The photo originated at the LA Times
It’s like they took heroes and made a movie
Tue, 12/23/2008 - 02:48 — Anonymous
It seems the regular occurence now to make a movie that requires a character in there to have some sort of powers whether it be like super powers or just some kind of brain mojo, so why is Push so hyped?. Mainly because its a different turn on the superheroes franchise by calling them names like “watchers” or “sniffers” (I lol at that everytime!), also theres a team following them hunting them down called “the division”.
The cast looks really solid but I think thats about how good it gets…see for yourself.
Jason Biggs…Grow Up!
Fri, 12/05/2008 - 04:47 — Anonymous
When will Jason Biggs move away from the American Pie syndrome, honestly I mean he has been doing fecking comedies since I was born (ok thats a lie!). He seems to be stuck in that American Pie syndrome where all the actors do from that film is comedy roles I mean have you ever seen him in a serious role?.
You could say this is a bitch post but he is starring in a new movie soon called Lower Learning that sounds like a bundle of fun…
Geraldine Ferraro Elementary is on the brink of collapse: the lowest test scores in the state, teachers who are either drunk or having sex on school grounds, and a principal who extorts money from parents. It’s up to Tom, the down-on-his-luck vice-principal, to rally the lazy teachers, expose the principal’s corruption, and turn the school around before an end of the day board decision that is certain to lead to its closure.
The funny thing is, its already for 3.8/10 on IMDB before the release thats how much faith people have in Biggsy.
(btw if someone wants to send me a review copy of the DVD I will be happy to be corrected on Jason Biggs acting skills)
Trailer for Ghostbusters the Video Game.. mmmm… meh.
Thu, 12/04/2008 - 12:05 — AnonymousI seem to remember this looked cooler when we saw really early footage like a year ago. This trailer seems like nothing but a bunch of cut-scenes from the game taped together with ectoplasm and Ernie Hudson’s dream’s. I preferred it when it looked like Gears of War with Proton Packs.
Check it out in high-res here…
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Criss Angel Conjures Up Holiday Cheer in Las Vegas. - 12/11/2008 11:01
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Review: Lakeview Terrace
Fri, 12/05/2008 - 03:06 — AnonymousI went to see this movie because there was literally nothing else to see at the $3 movie theater and I was bored. Thank God I wasn’t expecting much.
Plot summary from Netflix:
This dramatic thriller from director Neil LaBute follows Chris and Lisa Mattson (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington) as they settle into their Los Angeles dream house — only to be harassed by their off-kilter cop neighbor, officer Abel Turner (Samuel L. Jackson). Turner disapproves of the couple’s interracial relationship and is determined to drive them away, but as the harassment turns violent, the newlyweds have no choice but to fight back.
OK, I did not like this movie. My friend that I went with really liked it so, who knows? I guess that’s why everyone’s entitled to their own opinion… whatever.
The plot of the movie was eh, OK. Samuel L. Jackson was mildly entertaining and the only actor in the movie that wasn’t completely worthless. He definitely played the role of the neighbor from hell!
My number one complaint about this movie… I don’t know who Kerry Washington is but she is THE WORST actress I have ever seen in my life. She was just terrible. It distracted me so much from the movie because I was just waiting for her next crappy line. Speaking of crappy lines, the dialogue was horrible too. It was so forced and unrealistic I wanted to slap people.
The main actors that played the interracial couple had absolutely no chemistry whatsoever. I want to think that the main guy, Patrick Wilson, could be a good actor but his “wife” was so bad it brought him down… I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt.
And then there was all this weird racial tension… it was all too much for me.
But hey, what do I know because as I was walking out of the theater in disgust, my friend said (and I quote) “That was a really good movie”. So again, who am I to judge? Oh wait, this is my blog so my opinion is the only one that matters here.
My Rating:
Didn’t Like it
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